TNAG-1145-FCO40-1425-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-Macau-1982 — Page 104

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SECRET

SECRET

FM HONG KONG 030350Z APRIL 82

TO PRIORITY F C O

TELEGRAM NUMBER 313 OF 3 APRIL

INFO PRIORITY PEKING LISBON

FOR F E D

WP

YOUR TELNO 212 AND PEKING TELNO 194: FUTURE OF HONG KONG: STATUS

OF MACAU.

1. IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE HELPFUL IF THE SECRETARY OF

STATE WOULD RAISE THIS.

2. AS SEEN FROM HERE, THE QUESTIONS TO ASK ARE:

(A) WAS ANYTHING AGREED WITH THE CHINESE IN WRITING ABOUT THE STATUS OF MACAU. IF SO, IN WHAT TERMS 7.

(B) IF NOT, DID THE PORTUGUESE MAKE AN ORAL STATEMENT,

AND IN WHAT TERMS 7.

(C) IF NEITHER (A) NOR (B) APPLIES, DID THE CHINESE REGARD

THE WAY IN WHICH THE STATUS OF MACAU IS DEALTH WITH IN THE

PORTUGUESE CONSTITUTION OF 2 APRIL 1976 AS SUFFICIENT

ACKKNNOWLEDGMENT OF THEIR POSITION 7 (1.E. THE DISTINCTION

DRAWN BETWEEN PORTUGUESE TERRITORY ''DEFINED BY HISTORY ON

THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT AND THE ARCHIPELAGOS OF THE AZORES AND MADEIRA'' (ARTICLE 5.1) AND 'THE TERRITORY OF MACAU, UNDER PORTUGUESE ADMINISTRATION'' (ARTICLE 5.4).

(D) DID THE CHINESE PRESS AT ANY STAGE FOR A PUBLIC

ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT MACAU IS CHINESE TERRITORY. IF SO,

WHAT FORK OF WORDS DID THEY SUGGEST ?.

MACLEHOSE

LIMITED

FED

HRED

SED

MR DONALD

SECRET

THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT ADVANCED